Make your Bash scripts more efficient

Posted at 10:46am on Tuesday February 3rd 2009

We all hack together quick Bash scripts to perform mundane jobs, but rarely do we spend a lot of time wringing every bit of performance out of them. Still, if you're writing code that'll make its way into the hands of others, it's worth spending a bit of time making it more efficient. HackTux's 10 tips cover arrays, compound commands and other tidbits you can use to make your scripts faster and cleaner.